Sai Baba the Master - By E.Bhardawaj

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Mr. Krishnamurthi, an officer at Ongole, one day attended the bhajan at

Mr. Seetharamamurthi’s house. It was the holy Dattajayanthi day. Suddenly,

he had the darshan of a mystic light instead of the picture of Baba in the

shrine and he was lost in bliss for some time. Soon after, in gratitude, he

thought of offering Rs.116/- to the Sai Baba Mandir at Vidyanagar. Later,

he was taking his family to his native place, Guntur, in a vehicle. Five or

six miles ahead of the destination, three sannyasis stood in the middle of

the road and stopped the vehicle, hailing, “Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki

Jai!” The next moment, one of them addressed Mr. Krishnamurthi, “Give me

the Rs.116/- which you have promised me!” The latter was amazed and said,

“I do not have the money. Besides, I vowed to send it to the Sai Mandir at

Vidyanagar, after I receive my pay!” The sadhu said, “It is the same

whether you give it to me or send it to Vidyanagar. You may send it there

itself. But I am coming on foot from Nasik. Won’t you offer me a little

dakshina?” Mr. Murthi offered him a twenty—rupees note which was in his

shirt-pocket. “You have Rs.20/- more in your pant pocket. Why not give it

too?” the sadhu said. Precisely that was the amount left with him! He took

it out and gave away. But inwardly, he was anxious that it was all he had

and nothing was left for his sundry expenses. The sadhu received it, but

said, “Why worry that you don’t have anything for pocket expenses? Take

it!” and returned Rs.20/-, blessed them and left!

 

Mr. Anjaneyulu was a devotee of Baba. His little daughter Gayatri used to

evince unusual interest in his worship of the great sadguru. One night, he

was held up at his office owing to heavy work. At midnight, he had a

vision. He saw the little girl sitting on the table in front of him! So

vivid was the experience that he was anxious that she might fall down from

it and bent forward to hold her. The ‘child’ emanated the characteristic

odor of a highly fevered body and vanished in a moment. About two days

later, the little girl woke her father up at midnight saying, “Baba has

come, dad!” When she was shown a picture of Baba she said, “Yes, it is he!

He drove away a male buffalow by his divine power of mantra and has

beckoned to me!” Shortly after, she had an attack of common cold for a

couple of days. One day the child looked at Baba, dropped the doll in her

hand and gave up her spirit. Precisely on the thirteenth day after the girl

’s demise, the whole house was pervaded by a strange perfume. The parents

took it as the child’s last wish that the Thursday should be observed as

holy to Baba and arranged special bhajan and puja. Evidently, Baba has not

only indicated the coming event to the blessed parents and prepared their

minds, but also vindicated that the death was intentionally permitted by

him in the interests of the child’s spirit.

 

(Source : http://www.saibharadwaja.org)